Harbour Light Restaurant
HARBOUR LIGHT RESTAURANT, NORTH QUAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298291
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Harbour Light Restaurant
- Statutory Address:
- HARBOUR LIGHT RESTAURANT, NORTH QUAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298291
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Harbour Light Restaurant
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARBOUR LIGHT RESTAURANT, NORTH QUAY
- Statutory Address 2:
- HARBOUR LIGHT RESTAURANT, PAIGNTON HARBOUR
- Statutory Address 3:
- HARBOUR LIGHT RESTAURANT, ROUNDHAM POAD
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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HARBOUR LIGHT RESTAURANT, NORTH QUAY
- Statutory Address:
- HARBOUR LIGHT RESTAURANT, PAIGNTON HARBOUR
- Statutory Address:
- HARBOUR LIGHT RESTAURANT, ROUNDHAM POAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 89449 60374
Details
PAIGNTON
SX8960 PAIGNTON HARBOUR 1947-1/6/2 Harbour Light Restaurant 13/03/51
GV II
Probably fish cellars and net stores associated with the seine fishing industry, now largely in use as restaurant with some storage use associated with ships in the harbour. Possibly C17 in origin. MATERIALS: Colourwashed local red breccia rubble; natural slate roof laid in diminishing courses, gabled at ends; stack at S end of S range, shaft concealed by foliage. PLAN: Single-depth L-plan, the north range longer; part of the south range knocked through in the 1930s to give access to the esplanade. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3-window front to S range, 7:2-window front to the north range, which narrows in the last 2 bays to the east. All windows (except those at the east end of the north range) are small-pane C20 timber casements with timber lintels and C20 timber boarded shutters. The first-floor windows have recesses below the sills, suggesting they have been reduced in length. The south range has a set of external breccia steps with a covered porch with a lean-to roof and 4-pane window to the left. One ground-floor C20 three-light window; C20 boarded door at right end. The north range has 3 doors, all C20, one a sliding door. 7 first-floor windows; 3 ground-floor windows. The set back section at the right end has fixed-pane C20 windows. Right gable end still preserves an industrial character, the gable partly weatherboarded, external timber steps up to a small door to the right. One ground- and first-floor large doorway, the first-floor doorway with a gantry. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. HISTORY: Patterson argues that these buildings are those described in a deed of 10 July 1654 as "domus piscarie" and "domus cellarium". A photograph of 1938 shows the N range with small first-floor windows and boarded loading doors (Penwill). (Patterson CH: The History of Paignton: 1952-: 44, 45; Penwill FR: Paignton in Six Reigns: 1935-: 112).
Listing NGR: SX8944960374
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383753
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Penwill, F R, Paignton in Six Reigns, (1935), 112
Patterson, CH, The History of Paignton, (1952), 44-45
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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